Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 What’s Missing Is Early Stage Capital.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Industry change allows the entry of newer players at earlier stages – It doesn’t take as much money to launch a startup anymore. You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. We all know that. It is such a disconnect.

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Liquidity Event Silicon Valley Seed Stage Finance 308

dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Entrepreneurs face some pretty tough questions at a very early stage. How much equity should I grant to early employees? Dont worry about giving up too much equity at an early stage. Here are some "average" guidelines for equity percentages at a liquidity event. 5% Managers -.25%

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

What did you take from idea on the back of a napkin to liquidity event? As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. Ryan Hornbeck , Computer and Cloud Systems Integrator. to echo Yyz earlier you need to prove early stage market traction!

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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. cloud-based survey, free account. Wufoo - create contact forms, online surveys and event registrations.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53